1962

It's getting to be that time of year again when the Alumni Fund really needs our support to help meet some ambitious goals. As of March 7 the overall situation showed $5,458,000 and 23 percent, with goals of $l2 million and 70 percent participation. Please make every effort to remember the Alumni Fund and the Green Derby!

Congratulations to Bill Whaley, who at the December 1, 1984, annual meeting of the Medical Association of Atlanta, held at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta, was installed as president of the association for 1985.

Sandy Apgar recently sent a letter to the class officers and executive committee, referencing an article in The Wall Street Journal which was critical of the quality of training and teaching at U.S. colleges. The report criticized the emphasis on research at the expense of good teaching and underscored the very purpose of the Class of 1962 Faculty Fellowship, which specifically recognizes the need cited by the Association of American Colleges report. Thus the class can take pride in the fact that we began several years ago through our contributions to reemphasize the central importance of teaching in today's Dartmouth. Sandy also stated that the Faculty Fellowship Committee is now considering ways to follow up the current Fellowship for our 25th reunion and will report back to the class in late spring. I am sure that Sandy, Dan Tompkins, and Gary Spiess would welcome input from the class at large.

Ross Burkhardt recently met with BobKatz and John Knight to discuss the proposed slide show for the 25th. Their preliminary proposal was forwarded to PaulWeinberg for his feedback and comments prior to a finalized version to be presented to the executive and reunion committees. All agreed that the new show has to do three things: it has to be visually different from the last presentation; the concept/theme needs to be different; and as much as possible, different individuals should be highlighted this time (that is, '62s who were featured in "Dartmouth '62 + 20" will not be featured in this show, with perhaps one or two exceptions). More details to follow.

Paul Tsongas, having tried as a U.S. senator to obtain a new Boston arena for the Bruins and Celtics, is now as a private attorney proposing Gateway Center, a project that could take 12 years to build and cost between one and two billion dollars. He has teamed up with Boston real estate magnate Rosalind Gorin and Bruin immortals Bobby Orr and Wayne Cashman. If the project works out, Paul could be immortalized as the wizard who got a sports palace built after a quarter century of others' failures.

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